Looking ahead to 2012
ICT Research Network
Looking ahead
• Europe -‐ economy, ci@zens, policies • Business -‐ surviving defla@on, embracing mobility, crea@ng intelligence
• Technology mandate -‐ service orienta@on, footprint expansion, sourcing outcomes
• Industrial revolu@on -‐ local strength, newcomers from adjacencies, lawyers invade
• Public sector challenges grow
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Contributors The following independent analysts and firms have contributed to this document: • Pim Bilderbeek, The METISfiles, Amsterdam. e:pim@[email protected] • Jaime Garcia Cantero, Madrid. e:[email protected] • Claus Egge, clausegge.com, London. e:[email protected] • Mar@n Hingley, ITCandor, London. e:[email protected] • Simona Macellari, The Innova@on Group, Milan.
simona.macellari@[email protected] • Roberto Masiero, The Innova@on Group, Milan.
roberto.masiero@[email protected] • Puni Rajah, The Governance Board, London. [email protected] • Peter Perregaard, Copenhagen. [email protected] • Carsten Schmidt, HENRY Corpora@on, Copenhagen. cs@[email protected] • Ezio Viola, The Innova@on Group, Milan. ezio.viola@[email protected]
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The Euro Crunch bites ICT sales in EMEA • Our industry tends in general to grow faster than GDP, due to
automa@on and digi@sa@on: – however ITC sales can fall even faster than GDP in @mes of recession.
We saw falls in both 2001-‐3 and 2008-‐9 downturns and you should expect the same in 2012.
– Economic news has been dire in 2011 as countries struggle with sovereign debt, especially in southern ones using the Euro
– On the posi@ve side there are signs of modernisa@on in many African states, with vendors building new offices in the hope of winning early business.
– We will also see new business from disrupted countries stabilising and becoming more democra@c.
– Business spending is likely to be less affected than in 2008, largely because there can be few surprises likely to result in a sudden loss of confidence.
– Consumer spending, on the other hand, will not be countervailing as it was in 2008 – the reduc@on in household budgets are too palpable.
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Causes, effects and vicious cycles
Austerity measures
Disinvestment Lagging
technology literacy
Defla@on
By: Roberto Masiero
Successful ICT vendors will: • Iden@fy and focus on fast
growing ICT market segments, ver@cal markets and new services models (incredibly enough, some of the largest ICT Vendors do NOT have any focused mobile strategy yet!)
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Demographic dividend
Delayed re@rement
Healthcare innova@on
Greater reliance on technology
By: Simona Macellari
Successful ICT vendors will: • tackle this flourishing but
fragmented market by addressing this issue both in terms of offering and delivery model;
• Focus on economic sustainability of projects: sound business planning, public and private partnerships as well as modular approaches and sound economic models will make the difference between a promising idea and a feasible project
• Carefully analyse governance models to ensure compa@bility with processes and organiza@ons
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Embracing defla@on
Technology con@nues to create
defla@onary pressures
Businesses and governments find smarter ways to achieve results with fewer tradi@onal resources
By: Ezio Viola
Successful ICT vendors will: • Be smart to understand
business issues and benefits of their client to iden@fy their key core capabili@es
• Be smart in helping their clients to adopt a cloud strategy and move to a cloud based delivery model
• Be clever in providing skills for the innova@ve enterprise use of consumer IT
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Enterprise customers sehle into the post PC era
Consumeriza,on • In 2011 by first ,me in history people accessing the Internet from a “non PC” device (tablets, smartphones, TV, etc) overpassed those accessing from PCs
Transparency • Access paGerns render tradi,onal organisa,onal structures and business processes redundant
New budget sources • In 2012 we´ll con,nue seeing strong growth in mobile markets like apps, mobile media, adver,sement or gaming
By: Jaime Garcia Cantero
Successful ICT vendors will: • Redefine their strategy
for a new world where PC is not the main interface for accessing informa@on
• Learn from consumers market to create excellent user experiences priori@zing design and usability
• Invest in innova@on to address new environment opportuni@es
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Organisa@onal intelligence is the new holy grail
Intelligent enterprise
Business as mobile
Pervasive analy@cs
Social fabric
Comfort in the cloud
By: Roberto Masiero
Successful ICT vendors will: • Re-‐think their business in
terms of mobile services • Take advantage of
informa@on and organiza@onal asymmetries through an advanced use of the Analy@cs and of the Social Networks
• Deliver their services in Cloud
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Service oriented mandate
SO beyond architecture
Capital versus opera@onal
Sourcing drivers
By: Jaime Garcia Cantero
Successful ICT vendors will: • Embrace service oriented
delivery models and pay per use
• Make their offer much more flexible and loca@on agnos@c
• Use financial tools to reduce customer´s CAPEX
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Maintenance gets new respect
New challenges to vendor maintenance fees
Opera@onal technology comes under ICT responsibility
Business con@nuity mandate recognises maintenance as cri@cal
By: Puni Rajah
Successful ICT vendors will: • Demonstrate respect for
customers’ concerns and communicate value in maintenance offerings
• Embrace social technologies to reduce cost of maintenance delivery, and pass on savings to customers
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Volume
Value
Data analy@cs for the pioneers in 2012
In 2012 data analy@cs will grow in order to mine content in the vast estate of corporate storage. By joining unstructured data located in repositories across the web businesses aims to make beher and faster decisions. The data pioneers hope to find first mover advantage, but the prac@ce will eventually become widely adopted.
Successful ICT vendors will: • Stop focusing on the ‘Big’ in Big
Data • Instead drive the broad discussion
of analy@cs • Content centric vendors decide to
lead in analy@cs
By: Claus Egge
Sourcing matures towards outcomes
Internal resources
Technology producers
Specialist skills
By: Puni Rajah
Successful ICT vendors will: • Align sales and engagement teams
to keep pace with customers internal changes
• Re-‐design delivery processes to cope with smaller contracts profitably
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Local players prove to be more agile
• Re-‐posi@oning becomes priority • Consumeriza@on drives agenda
• Cloud providers • BPO stacks and brokers
• Lower barriers to entry • Compelling returns
By: Ezio Viola
Successful ICT vendors will: • Enable and s@mulate the
growth of an ecosystem of new innova@ve local players
• deliver plaoorms and services for a new wave of business applica@ons moving from transac@onal systems to new engagement, experien@al and personal fullfilment systems
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Maturing markets pave way for newcomers
By: Peter Perregaard
Successful ICT vendors will:
• Ensure cross-‐plaoorm capability on mobile plaoorms
• Move to mobile as fast as possible
• Apple will lose it's dominant posi@on in the smart phone market.
• While Apple was eminent in understanding that people wanted a device that extended their personality rather than just technology, the economic situa@on in the industrialized world and the growth in developing countries means that there will be much more focus on price. This will give Nokia, Samsung and others a chance to re-‐define their posi@on in the smart phone marked and take share from Apple.
• This will lead to an explosion of new companies that will develop Apps to more plaoorms trying to capitalize on the explosion of devices on Windows and Android. And applica@ons will become more "business-‐like" as more users buy for economic reasons rather than social.
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The lawyers’ bill
Patent wars
• The industry misses opportuni@es as management energy is distracted by legal issues
An@ trust
• Plaoorm giants like Facebook will face increasing an@-‐trust ahen@on
By: Peter Perregaard
Successful ICT vendors will: • accept legal counsel
and rising costs as part of the ICT industry
• Co-‐operate and align along interest groups to be more effec@ve
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Digital Divide Persists
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Trends: Government out of touch •Ci@zen services are rolled out slower than demand Policies fail to keep pace •NetNeutrality Rising need for con@nuity management •Who is responsible? •Who will fund?
Successful ICT vendors will: Support ci@zens in their quest for a digital Europe by helping governments embrace social networking, open data, and the cloud Show support for net neutrality. (if you dont, look at what happened to go daddy for suppor@ng SOPA) Help par@cipa@ng actors communicate to each other about dependencies in the digital supply chain and beyond.
Looking ahead to 2012
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